Re: [Emc-users] Tuning a servo

2020-12-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 09 December 2020 13:58:14 Todd Zuercher wrote: > -Original Message- > From: dave engvall > Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2020 1:10 PM > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Tuning a servo > > On 12/9/20 8:21 AM, Jon Elson wrote: > > On 12/08/2020

[Emc-users] Can someone define what an angular scale is?

2020-12-09 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I pulled the index plate off the bs-1, looking for a place where the index/home switch would be somehat protected, and gnawed a notch in the edge of the spindle flange and have a switch sitting in a puddle of JBWeld to sense that notch. Getting the mounts wrapped around the

Re: [Emc-users] Tuning a servo

2020-12-09 Thread Todd Zuercher
-Original Message- From: dave engvall Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2020 1:10 PM To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Tuning a servo On 12/9/20 8:21 AM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 12/08/2020 10:53 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> What does that 22mv mean in folllowing error

Re: [Emc-users] Tuning a servo

2020-12-09 Thread dave engvall
On 12/9/20 8:21 AM, Jon Elson wrote: On 12/08/2020 10:53 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: What does that 22mv mean in folllowing error since I have that set for about half an inch at the moment? It is not milli VOLTS, it is milli-units.  Generally inches or mm, depending on your preference. so 22m

Re: [Emc-users] Tuning a servo

2020-12-09 Thread Chris Albertson
The bottom lie with controllers is that we trade simplicity for performance and at some point just have to say "good enough". You really do have to know what you are measuring and what you are outputting. It is this I think you are measuring position (not velocity) So the "error" is distance

Re: [Emc-users] 7i96 multi wire input

2020-12-09 Thread Sven Wesley
Den ons 9 dec. 2020 kl 13:33 skrev Gene Heskett : > On Wednesday 09 December 2020 03:52:16 Sven Wesley wrote: > > > Den ons 9 dec. 2020 kl 02:27 skrev Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users < > > > > emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>: > > > The way to wire an emergency stop circuit with 2 or more things

Re: [Emc-users] Tuning a servo

2020-12-09 Thread Jon Elson
On 12/08/2020 10:53 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: What does that 22mv mean in folllowing error since I have that set for about half an inch at the moment? It is not milli VOLTS, it is milli-units. Generally inches or mm, depending on your preference. so 22m means 0.022" assuming that's what you use.

Re: [Emc-users] 7i96 multi wire input

2020-12-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 09 December 2020 03:52:16 Sven Wesley wrote: > Den ons 9 dec. 2020 kl 02:27 skrev Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users < > > emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>: > > The way to wire an emergency stop circuit with 2 or more things that > > can trigger it, is to have it a normally closed circuit

Re: [Emc-users] 7i96 multi wire input

2020-12-09 Thread Sven Wesley
Den ons 9 dec. 2020 kl 02:27 skrev Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users < emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>: > The way to wire an emergency stop circuit with 2 or more things that can > trigger it, is to have it a normally closed circuit and every stop switch, > mechanical or electronic, in series. > That

Re: [Emc-users] 7i96 multi wire input

2020-12-09 Thread Sven Wesley
Den ons 9 dec. 2020 kl 01:39 skrev Gene Heskett : > On Tuesday 08 December 2020 18:17:11 Sven Wesley wrote: > > > Am I totally off the chart if I wire all the drives' pin number 6 > > together and connect them to one of the inputs on the 7i96 and get it > > to stop the program with a big alert?